Civilization 5 wont launch

steamclosed 3rd party game

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6228 · opened 2019-04-19 by vans163 · updated 2021-10-08 · 4 comments · github

Vvans163 2019-04-19 github

Your system information

1555457005, Apr 16, 2019 @ 21:10:43
18.04
No Beta
Yes Updates

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Click Play on Civilization 5.

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Civilization 5 exits right at launch gracefully. No errors.

I used gdb to backtrace exit call, it seems to be called from here

Thread 2 "SDLTimer" hit Catchpoint 1 (call to syscall exit), 0xf7fd5059 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xf7fd5059 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xf7b73489 in start_thread () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xf79b6e16 in clone () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

Error logs are empty. There are no errors, the game exits gracefully. It worked before April 16th, I even remember playing it. I am not sure what happened in the meantime.

Ooaksisfolks 2019-04-27 github

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting#Civilization_V

Civ 5 needs to be manually configured to run on high-core count processors. What processor do you have?

Vvans163 2019-04-27 github

2+2 Pentium. 4 cores total with hyperthreading.. It worked before, iunno maybe I need to nuke my system.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-09-03 github

Hello @vans163, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system? In general, game-specific issues with native Linux games should also be mentioned to the game's dev(s) if it hasn't been already.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-10-08 github

Closing as outdated.

Nothing extracted yet.